tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post3309906077934102781..comments2018-05-24T22:04:39.815+03:00Comments on A Political Refugee From the Global Village : In Ireland the past is not dead, it is not even pastP.V.E. Woodhttps://plus.google.com/109805117897991142945noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-25396912831065848062018-05-23T07:38:24.182+03:002018-05-23T07:38:24.182+03:00Myko Clelland (@DapperHistorian):
Once back 7 gene...Myko Clelland (@DapperHistorian):<br />Once back 7 generations each of our ancestors represents less than 1% of of what makes us who we are. After 10 generations, it&#39;s less than 0.1%. Each one of us truly stands on the shoulders of thousands! https://t.co/J6gXvfstQeP.V.E. Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-35133987025860705002018-05-18T23:22:49.676+03:002018-05-18T23:22:49.676+03:00The decline of Christianity (not just in Ireland -...The decline of Christianity (not just in Ireland - but everywhere) is often claimed to be because of the &quot;rise of science&quot; but I do not think that is true. I think that Christianity declined because most Churches stopped arguing for it - and became glorified social workers obsessed with poverty instead (ironically the more they TALKED about poverty they LESS help they gave the poor with their own hands). the Roman Catholic Church is a good example - I would argue that it was a strong as ever as late 1958, then it started to decline. Not because of some new scientific discovery after 1958, but because it became bashful about its own doctrines - and gradually stopped arguing for them. The intellectual justifications for the doctrines (and they do have intellectual justifications) were gradually forgotten - for example the present Pope is unable to argue against Islam (he does not even see the need to present a case against it and a case for his own religion), by the late 1960s (when he was trained - in Germany, not Argentina) traditional intellectual training was being replaced by emotional mush.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-6525160514807780582018-05-18T16:47:11.084+03:002018-05-18T16:47:11.084+03:00Cork - an old Irish town and aland of tough men. &...Cork - an old Irish town and aland of tough men. &quot;Irish&quot; and &quot;British&quot; is a rather arbitrary distinction - for example was Saint Patrick a &quot;British colonialist&quot; trying to spread an &quot;alien culture&quot; on the Pagan Irish? And if the real meaning is &quot;Celt&quot; versus &quot;Anglo Saxon&quot; then most of the Protestants of the North are most certainly Celtic - a lot more so than many of the &quot;Post Catholics&quot; in the South, who can be of Norman stock (like my own grandfather&#39;s family - &quot;Power&quot; is a Norman name), or even Indian (for example the Prime Minister of the Irish Republic).Ulster tends to be more socially conservative place - perhaps because the Protestant Churches have not yet totally collapsed (although they are much weaker than they used to be). It would be wrong to think of Ulster as a &quot;post Christian&quot; place as mainland Britain now is - whether the Republic of Ireland is &quot;Post Christian&quot; will be seen in a few days, when the results of the referendum on abortion come in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-84851711796362849712018-05-18T13:08:39.514+03:002018-05-18T13:08:39.514+03:00&quot;The more atheists think on these things, the...&quot;The more atheists think on these things, the more we may have to accept that the concept of the sanctity of human life is a Judeo-Christian notion which might very easily not survive Judeo-Christian civilisation. Those who do not believe in God and who stare over that cliff — which as Theo Hobson points out, very few atheists actually do — may realise that only three options remain open to us.<br /><br />The first option is to fall into the furnace. Another is to work furiously to nail down an atheist version of the sanctity of the individual. If that does not work, then there is only one other place to go. Which is back to faith, whether we like it or not.&quot;<br /><br />https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/04/ethics-for-atheists/P.V.E. Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-4252235265747424962018-05-17T09:52:05.558+03:002018-05-17T09:52:05.558+03:00Thank you very much, David. It was very long. Thank you very much, David. It was very long. P.V.E. Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-5359973099913335212018-05-17T09:04:24.960+03:002018-05-17T09:04:24.960+03:001000 or 100 feet what does size matter? ;)
I enjo...1000 or 100 feet what does size matter? ;)<br /><br />I enjoyed reading the piece.<br /><br />Another entertaining and informative read combining travel review, personal experience, historical anecdote and political and social comment.David in Belgradenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-77331837209106171142018-05-17T00:54:46.357+03:002018-05-17T00:54:46.357+03:00Thank you.Thank you.P.V.E. Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523068770529814044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-891289711377156224.post-81105892215163794532018-05-16T23:18:17.557+03:002018-05-16T23:18:17.557+03:00i do not wish to nitpick, but the Round Tower is 1...i do not wish to nitpick, but the Round Tower is 100 feet tall, not 1,000.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com